I recently installed the trial version of Adobe Acrobat 9 and LiveCycle.

I was working on a form and was half way through when the program shut down on me. Now whenever I open the program, it opens ok but when I try to either create a new file or open a current file, I get the following error message before the program shuts down.

Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

If you were in the middle of something, the information you were working on might be lost.

Please tell microsoft about this problem.

We have created an error report that you can send to us. We will treat this report as confidential and anonymous.

To see what this error data report contains, click here.

I was happy with the product and looking to purchase it but now I am not so sure!

If you installed LiveCycle Designer ES 8.2 on the same computer as Microsoft SQL Server 2008, LiveCycle Designer ES 8.2 crashes when launched. If this is the case then please refer to the knowledge base article on this topic: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/407/kb407823.html

Fix: Installing the attached vcredist_x86.exe will install a new version (8.0.50727.3079 ) of the Microsoft redistributable DLLs including mfc80u.dll to resolve this issue hope this helps someone else.